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Internal resources are underutilised under the old "one server, one application" model and IT administrators spend too much time managing servers rather than innovating

Today's powerful x86 computer hardware was designed to run a single operating system and a single application. This leaves most machines vastly underutilised. Virtualisation lets you run multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine, sharing the resources of that single computer across multiple environments. Different virtual machines can run different operating systems and multiple applications on the same physical computer.

Enables IT can assist with server virtualisation in the following areas;

Capacity Planning

Whether you already have been looking at virtualisation on a small scale or this is your first step into virtualisation, the capacity planning reports are a low cost consultancy exercise that will deliver a strategic report on how to create the optimum virtual environment for your data centre that will deliver increased performance, flexibility and agility whilst massively reducing your organisations data centre power and cooling requirements. Enables IT use the industry leading Platespin analysis tool which delivers a highly detailed report, mapping out the ideal virtual infrastructure for your organisation. One of our highly qualified consultants will then analyse the report to pull out the key business benefits and savings specific to your organisation and assist in the internal business case to realise your potential.

Strategic review

For customers who have enjoyed the initial success of consolidation utilising server virtualisation, the next steps are to apply virtualisation throughout the entire infrastructure or capitalise on the additional benefits that can be gained.

With the established maturity of the virtualisation market, Enables IT have engaged with clients to reassess their virtualisation programme, provide a sanity check on the existing infrastructure, recommendations and current industry thinking on those "key applications" that may have previously not been suitable to virtualise and provide a strategy where the technology and processes are aligned to deliver the true benefits of virtualised infrastructure, creating a truly agile computing data centre.

Server Migrations

As time and business processes change and the need for a continually improving IT systems grows. This could be a simple upgrade from one version to a later version, a migration into different technology better suited to the changing business requirements, or a physical move to better more performant hardware.

At Enables IT we recognise that the latest and greatest is not always the best for your organisation. We can advise on the most appropriate solutions and minimise risks in your business with new products as we have been involved in many vendor BETA testing programmes in which we gain the inside knowledge of a product before it comes to market.

Utilising our own in house project management team, we can deliver our customers a Prince 2 level of project management to assist our customers in the design, build and implementation phase of a migration project.

By utilising the techniques derived from virtualisation of existing servers and combining the industry leading migration tools, Enables IT are able to de-risk and minimise any down time when moving between systems or hardware platforms.

Our Professional Services team will lead our clients through the entire process from the detailed design through to the implementation and migration whilst providing the necessary skills transfer to empower your internal teams with the knowledge of the new solutions and methodologies.